2013/8/26 Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org>: > I just removed a non-ASCII character from truncated_svd.py, because it > was crashing a certain version of IPython when displaying the help. > > UTF-8 characters are not very pleasant to work with, as only a fraction > of the world knows how to type them (that fraction depends on the > corresponding character).
Almost anything you can type in LaTeX can be easily translated to Unicode with unicodeit.net. > I notice that they have creeped in a bunch of our files. I'll try to > remove them (if I find time). I believe that we should really never set > the encoding of our source files, and stick to plain ASCII. That's probably my doing, because I strongly prefer Unicode to ASCII art when reading formulas. In this case, it's just a hyphen so it's not much of a problem, but I think the restriction to ASCII is a throwback to the 1980s. My window system, terminal, editor and web browser handle UTF-8 out of the box, without any configuration, and I consider any program broken that doesn't grok it. -- Lars Buitinck Scientific programmer, ILPS University of Amsterdam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
